README:  Interview with John Ziemer, Editor.

LICENSE:  CC-BY-NC-SA  [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/]

DISTRIBUTION URL:  http://dx.doi.org/10.7910/DVN/UGASBW

Published with permission of John Ziemer and Merrick Lex Berman.

Interviewee:  John Ziemer
Interviewer:  Lex Berman
Topic:  G. W. Skinner

Recorded in Cambridge, MA (Nov 13th, 2008)

Published on DataVerse (Sep 6th, 2017)

DESCRIPTION:

John Ziemer was the long-time editor of Chinese and Asian Publications at Stanford University Press.  Later he served as the founding editor of the Asia Center Publications division of Harvard University Press.

At the time of this interview, Ziemer was working at Harvard and agreed to share his thoughts and memories of his colleague, G. William Skinner.

Part of the interview is about the research methods and editorial processes that went into the compilation of "Modern Chinese Society: An Analytical
Bibliography" (in three volumes)   Stanford University Press: v1. Western Languages, v2. Chinese, v3. Japanese (1973)

However, Ziemer provides many illuminating digressions about the people he worked with, the technology and research methods at Skinner's Stanford lab, as well as stories of his own travels and studies in Taiwan, Japan, and elsewhere.



